Summary

On the Sunny Side of the Street

This chapter is written from Gus’s point of view. He has arrived back in America and is living in the same part of New York as Eva and Danny. He revels in all of the food that is so readily available. More Jews arrive every day from war-torn Europe and he tries to help them assimilate. He takes a job as a professor of math and engineering at a local school. Every day he walks among the boroughs looking for a sign of Eva and Danny.

There is a letter from Iris. It is not dated. She talks, in true Iris fashion, about herself. She’s broken up with yet another girlfriend and muses that the thing to do these days is marry a Jewish man, preferably one up in years. She says that...